I've Got A Fever of a Hundred and One

FEVER101

The day I recorded this song, I was all sick. I really wanted to record a song, but my voice sounded shitty, on account of my being sick.  So, I decided to take advantage of that fact and make the shitty-ness of my voice into art by making the song be about a sick person. So, in this song, the girl in the fucked up school has a fever of 101, and although she wants to just stay in bed, she knows she'll get in trouble if she doesn't go to class. So she ends up going go class. (See below if you're unfamiliar with this project).

On that day, my temperature was actually 99, but 101 sounded cooler than 99.

Weird fever of 101

 This is last week's song if you play it backwards.

The lyrics are:

I’ve got a fever of a hundred and one

But if I miss this class, my life will not be fun

The teacher said / you don’t have a pass / to stay in bed / and miss this class

I’ve got a fever and it makes me feel like ass

If I don’t  go to school I may not pass my class

I cannot fail

I’d be deader than a nail

Ticking down to midnight and I’m kicking all the pails

Styx-ing in the river and it’s off to sea I sail

And I’m sicker than a dog incurring vet bills

This virus that’s inside us, no, it don’t respond to pet pills

I got this kennel cough don’t scoff, it’s very, very bad

And the teachers say to laugh it off, but it just makes me sad

One day, I started writing a song about a fucked up school. Then, a few days later, that lawsuit came out, involving those pervy professors in the Dartmouth Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. I was all, oh, my stars!!! That’s where I got my Ph.D.! Then I finished writing the song about a week later. I thought it was just a song about how the school system fucks up kids, but after I finished writing and recording it, I realized parts of it were about my experiences in that poopy psych department (the unconscious mind works in mysterious ways). In any event, I decided to write an album about a fucked up school in order to process my experiences of having been in that department and how the culture there impacted me. This album ain’t necessarily about Dartmouth, per se. It’s more of a weird, inner exploration where I’m, like, having a fucked up dialogue with my unconscious about my experiences at Dartmouth. Jung used to call that kind of stuff “active imagination.” So far, this album follows the story of a girl, whose guardian angels try to protect her, but often can't find her. The angels at some point decide that they have to protect the girl from those nasty teachers and start to plot against them. But then they realize they don’t want to actually harm the teachers, so they, instead, make the teachers’ brains into nature brains ™, which are basically brains that hear communications coming from nature spirits. The angels do this because they think it’ll give those teachers more empathy, and will, in turn, be nice to the students.